Patience Quotes

Find patience or it will never find you. - Mike Dolan,

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? - Paul Sweeney


Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.  - Mac McCleary


Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off.  - Author Unknown


Beware the fury of a patient man.  - John Dryden, Absolam and Achitophel, 1680


Tell her to look sharp about sending an answer... if she keeps me waiting long after that letter's sent, I shall go off pop, like a bottle of ginger-beer; I know I shall—string won't hold me, nor wire either. - Frank Smedley, "Helping a Lame Dog Over a Stile," in The World of Wit and Humour, 1873


Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.  - Lord Chesterfield


Patience:  A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.  - Ambrose Bierce


You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance.  - Franklin P. Jones


Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.  - George-Louis de Buffon


Adopt the pace of nature:  her secret is patience.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson


An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. - Dutch Proverb  [Quoted in P.J. Harrebomée, Spreekwoordenboek der Nederlandsche taal, c.1853, and in English: Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs comprising French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Danish, with English Translations, 1857. Sometimes quoted as "A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains." —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]


Patience is better than wisdom: an ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. All men praise patience, but few enough can practise it; it is a medicine which is good for all diseases, and therefore every old woman recommends it; but it is not every garden that grows the herbs to make it with. - Charles H. Spurgeon (1834–1892), "On Patience" (John Ploughman)


Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.  - John Quincy Adams


Have patience, my friend, have patience;
For Rome wasn't built in a day!
You wear yourself out for nothing
In many and many a way!
Why are you nervous and fretty
When things do not move along fast;
Why let yourself get excited
Over things that will soon be past?
- Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, "Patience" (1940s)


Patience is the companion of wisdom.  - St. Augustine


Patience is also a form of action. - Auguste Rodin


...like stealing the juice out of tomorrow's fruit. - Terri Guillemets


How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
- William Shakespeare, Othello


One moment of patience may ward off great disaster.  One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.  - Chinese Proverb


Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience.  Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.  - Michel de Montaigne